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This book of essays, originally owned by Knopf and sold to U. Chicago and written over the course of 14 years, describes the ascendancy of the extreme right in the 1950s and '60s and the public responses to critical situations or enduring dilemmas of that same period.

"Here are a series of episodes in the American imagination--from anti-Masonry and Populism to McCarthyism and the Birch Society--each of them informed with a distinctive intelligence...Hofstadter's status theory helps us understand a political history that goes far beyond the issues of the fifties and sixties which it was invoked to explain."

New Republic

"Recent months have witnessed an attack of unprecedented passion and ferocity against the national government. The Republican Party has apparently embarked on a crusade to destroy national standards, national projects, and national regulations and to transfer domestic governing authority from the national government to the states...Unbridled rhetoric is having consequences far beyond anything that antigovernment politicians intend. The flow of angry words seems to have activated and, in a sense, legitimized what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the `paranoid strain' in American politics."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Wall Street Journal, 06/07/1995

The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays: Search Results